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How To Install True Type Font Into Linux
By: Sean Corfield
Expert Author
2009-11-10
I'm posting this as a reminder to myself since I've had to do this twice in the last few weeks and have to Google it each time...
To install TrueType Fonts on Linux so that Java can access them ought to be as simple as copying them to $JAVA_HOME/lib/fonts/ but it isn't. You (also) have to go through the following process to make them valid system fonts:
Installing fonts on Linux
I don't think the xfs restart is needed (since both of the servers I've installed fonts on lately have not had xfs running in the first place).
This process was required to make the fonts visible to the Alagad Image Component (which is now free open source!). Your mileage may vary of course.
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About the Author:
Sean is currently Chief Technology Officer for Railo Technologies US. He has worked in IT for over twenty five years, starting out writing database systems and compilers then moving into mobile telecoms and finally into web development in 1997. Along the way, he worked on the ISO and ANSI C++ Standards committees for eight years and is a staunch advocate of software standards and best practice. Sean has championed and contributed to a number of CFML frameworks and was lead developer on Fusebox for two years.
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